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Upon finishing school, Lindgren took a job with the a local newspaper in Vimmerby.

When she became pregnant with the chief editor's child in 1926, he proposed marriage.

She declined and moved to Stockholm, learning to become a typist and stenographer ( she would later write most of her drafts in stenography ).

In due time, she gave birth to her son, Lars, in Copenhagen and left him in the care of a foster family.